Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-10-15
NEWSLETS,
Gathered From All Parts
Of the Country.
Multum in Parvo.

Only three Of the Colored schools Of
New Orleans have colored teachers in
! them.
Mr.. William Copeland, Colored, has
been nominated for the legislature in
| Cincinnati, Ohio
William Hill, Colored, of Greensboro,
Ala, owns $50 acres of land, each acre
good for one bale of cotton.
Louisville, Ky, has a Colered poet of
marked ability in the person of young
man named Joseph S. Cotton
The Cuban Giants, the famous Color
ed base ball club, play the Boston
League club at Trenton, tomorrow.
A young Colored man named w. H.
Ashe has been nominated to represent
the counties of Nottaway and Amelia,
| Va, in the next legislature.
Miss Gussie Eva Clark, daughter of
Mrs. Bishop Payne, was married Octo-
Der 9th, to Rev. j. H. Jones, B. E., a
Graduate of Wilberforce University and
resident of Orangeburg, S. G.
Mr.. T. Thomas Fortune, has severed
his connection with the New York
Freeman and the name of the paper has
been changed to the Age. The Age will
be conducted by E. Fortune, Jr, and
Jerome B. Peterson, and will be
strictly Republican.
Alice Beeman, Colored belle of New
Haven. has shocked the Colored mem
| bers and friends of the colony in that
city by marrying heather Chinee. She
| is fine looking mulatto and is the
daughter Of one Of the most prominent
ministers in Connecticut.
Mr.. George A. Bickles, the only mem
Der of the Art Students League Of New
York City, is nineteen years old and I'M
til recently was a stable boy at Islip, L..
I. He was admitted to a membership
upon the merit of his work, and is fine
musician as we'll as good painter.
The Colored comrades of the G.. A R.
who attended the National encam pment
at St. Louis were extended very cor
dial reception. c. A. Pinn, of Ohio,
the first Colored man to preside over a
post of white men, was an aide on the
staff of the commander of the Ohio
delegation.
Robert Smith, a Colored man of De-
troit, Mich, has entered suit to recover
possession of the property now occupied
by Columbia avenue Baptist church.
He claims to have inherited it from his
brother and says that his failure to take
earlier action was because of ignorance
of his rights. The property is very val
liable.
DR.. A. Fielding, a well-known Color
ed physician of Knoxville, Tenn, has
Inherited $50, 900. In 1898, John Field
ing, a wealthy planter. Of central Ken
lucky, died and left the bulk of his for
tune, consisting in part of several fine
farms in the bluegrass region to a couple
of Colored boys. DR.. Fielding is a des-
cendant Of one of these and received
the information of his inheritance last
Saturday.
A Colored Cemetery company has
been formed in Louisville, KY. Thirty
one acres of ground have been pur-
| chased, and the cemetery will be dedi-
Gated tomorrow with appropriate cere-
| IN tlo
are as follows: Bishop w. II. Miles,
president: A. j. Bibb, vice president;
H. G. Weeden, secretary; w. H. Glib
son, ST., treasurer; Directors, Felix
johnson, Felix Fowler, Allen Johnson,
John A. Churchill.
Latest advices from Brownstown, Ark
report a most sensational elopement
and killing at that place. A Colored
man, somewhat prepossessing in ap-
pearance, was placed in charge Of the
Colored academy at that place. Soon
after his arrival he became attentive to
a young white girl, Miss Ina Jones
daughter of the wealthiest planter in
the county, and despite the entreaties
Of her parents and friends, the girl al
lowed his attentions and finally announc.
ed her intention of marrying Jeffries
and although she was carefully watched
she succeeded in clipping with him. Hel
father and several others Immediately
started in pursuit and succeeded in ov.
ertaking the pair. Jeffries was instant
ly killed, over thirty balls having lodged
in his body.